ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,713, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Low power flip-flop" was invented by Byounggon Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dalhee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power flip-flop includes a master section including a multiplexer, a first AND-OR-Inverter (AOI) gate circuit, a second AOI gate circuit, and a first inverter circuit and configured to receive a data input signal, a scan input signal, a scan enable signal, and an inverted scan enable signal, and output a second internal signal and a third internal signal, a slave section including a third AOI g...